[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Number of Holes for Spray Bar
- To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com
- Subject: Re: Number of Holes for Spray Bar
- From: Roger Miller <roger at spinn_net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 05:45:52 -0600
- In-reply-to: <200209240748.g8O7m8I02121 at acme_actwin.com>
- References: <200209240748.g8O7m8I02121 at acme_actwin.com>
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 01:48, Jerry wrote:
> There has got to be some way to calculate the number/size
> of holes in a spray bar that one can have before the flow is no longer
> equal out of all of the holes simultaneously.
It isn't so simple. It depends on the size and length of the pipe you're
using and on the placement and shape of the holes as well as on the number of
holes. Large spray bar-like devices are used to discharge industrial wastes
and I think there are computer programs to design those devices. Even if you
use one of those design programs you will see different results depending on
whether the flow you put into the spray bar is well-behaved. Getting a
well-behaved stream would probably require something like 10 pipe-diameters
of straight pipe upstream from the spray bar.
I suppose you could get one of those design programs. You have two other
alternatives. You can find someone else who did exactly what you want to do
and do exactly what they did, or you can buy the pipe you want to use, decide
what size of hole you want to use and start experimenting.
Roger Miller